School of Cities
Amer Shalaby
Bahen/Tanenbaum Chair
Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Intelligent transportation systems with emphasis on advanced public transit systems
- Public transit planning and operations
- Simulation and modelling of transportation systems
- Transportation planning of large-scale events and mega cities
Office: 416-978-5907
Website
Email: amer.shalaby@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Beth Savan
Senior Lecturer (Emeritus), School of the Environment, Faculty of Arts and Science
Associate Graduate Faculty Member, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science
Research Associate, Cities Centre and School of Public Policy and Governance

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Active Transportation and in particular cycling for transportation
- Institutional policy on sustainability
- Sustainability
Office: 416 -275- 4745
Mobile: 416 -275- 4745
Languages: French, some Spanish
Website
Email: b.savan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
David Roberts
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Urban Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science

- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Cities and mega-events
- Race and racialization
- Refugee youth
- Urban popular culture
- Urban social movements
Office: 416-978-7790
Website
Email: d.roberts@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Enid Slack
Director, Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance

- Campus
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- COVID-19 - Financial impact on municipalities
- Intergovernmental transfers
- Municipal finance - revenues and expenditures of municipal governments
- Municipal restructuring
- New sources of municipal revenue
- Property tax reform
- Property tax; property tax reform; intergovernmental transfers; user fees; new sources of municipal revenue
- User fees
Office: 416-946-0328
Email: enid.slack@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Gabriel Eidelman
Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
Director, Urban Policy Lab

- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-7831
Website
Email: g.eidelman@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Greg Evans
Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Air pollution in large cities
- Airborne particles
- Climate change
- Development and application of high time resolution instruments for field studies
- Emissions of pollutants
- Engineering education
- Exposure of urban populations to traffic related air pollutants
- Impact of aerosols on health and environment
- Quality and composition of urban air
- Receptor modeling for sources identification and characterization
Office: 416-978-1821
Languages: French
Email: greg.evans@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Harald Bathelt
Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Economic geography
- Economic globalization and international trade fairs
- Economic/Technology/Innovation policy
- German political economy
- Regional economic development and industry clusters
- Regional/National innovation and technological change
Office: 416-946-0183
Home: 416-597-2099
Languages: German
Website
Email: harald.bathelt@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Jason Hackworth
Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: N/A
Email: jason.hackworth@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Kate Mulligan
Assistant Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Community health and wellbeing
- Ecological public health
- Health equity
- India crisis & global health inequity
- Public health policy
- Social prescribing
Office: 416.236.2539 ext. 244
Website
Email: kate.mulligan@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Kathleen Gallagher
Distinguished Professor, Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education cross-appointed to the Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Applied Theatre
- Arts education
- Documentary Theatre
- Ethnographic research
- Gender and schooling
- Urban schooling
- Youth studies
Office: 416-978-0160
Home: 416-960-5633
Website
Email: kathleen.gallagher@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Khandker Nurul Habib
Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Transport economics
- Transportation planning
- Transportation policy
- Urban transportation issues and solutions
Office: 416-946-8027
Languages: English
Website
Email: khandker.nurulhabib@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Larry Bourne
Professor Emeritus

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Canada: managing growth and decline
- Form and sprawl
- Immigration and migration
- Neighbourhood change
- Social change in cities
- Urban growth
Office: 416-978-1595
Mobile: 416-486-7819
Email: larry.bourne@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Matti Siemiatycki
Director of the Infrastructure Institute
Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts and Science
- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Community and regional planning
- Congestion management
- Cycling
- Housing; Solutions for commercial vacancies
- Infrastructure finance and delivery
- Public-private partnerships
- Transit and commuting
- Transportation policy and planning
- Urban planning
- Urban transit
Office: 416-946-5145
Mobile: 647-680-8963
Website
Email: siemiatycki@geog.utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Paolo Granata
Professor in Book and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts and Science

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Digital literacy
- Italian politics
- Marshall McLuhan
- Media ecology
- Media Ethics
- Philosophy of technology
- Sustainable Development Goals
- Toronto Creative City
Office: 416-926-2288
Mobile: 647 550 6513
Languages: Italian
Website
Email: paolo.granata@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Patricia Landolt
Professor
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Academic administration
- Citizenship
- Detention; deportation
- Higher education
- Immigrants and labour markets
- Immigration – international migration; immigration policy
- Migration and health
- Precarious legal status- immigration status; noncitizenship
- Refugees
- Work- low end work and migrant workers
Office: 416-287-7156
Languages: Spanish
Email: p.landolt@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Prentiss Dantzler
Assistant Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-8487
Website
Email: p.dantzler@utoronto.ca
Sarah Wakefield
Associate Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Community development
- Environmental justice/just sustainability
- Food access and security
- Food policy and food systems
- Social & Political Geography
- Sustainable agriculture
- Urban health inequalities
Office: 416-978-3653
Email: sarah.wakefield@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Shauna Brail
Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise
Office: 416.978.7463
Website
Email: shauna.brail@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Shoshanna Saxe
Associate Professor

- Campus
- Faculty
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
- Civil engineering
- Embodied carbon/GHG
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Infrastructure
- Sustainable cities
- Sustainable construction
- Transport
Office: N/A
Email: s.saxe@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online
Susannah Bunce
Associate Professor
- Campus
- Department
- Centres
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-287-7296
Website
Email: susannah.bunce@utoronto.ca
Media availablity: TV, Radio, Print/Online